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Beirich appears to have been forced to leave her intelligence job at the SPLC during the period when federal investigators were asking questions about the use of informants in the organization’s intelligence operations.

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Delivering a new version of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) bank fraud indictment for the second time, federal prosecutors in Alabama added a new target this week: Heidi Beirich. The former SPLC executive is accused of living with a member of a neo-Nazi organization and sharing bank accounts with him while allegedly directing SPLC funds to him as payment for his work as an informant:

The addition of Beirich as a defendant makes the indictment stranger, rather than clearer, and suggests the presence of new and little-understood background themes in a continuing investigation.

Reflecting the language of the indictment, news stories had initially described Beirich as the SPLC’s former chief financial officer (CFO). That doesn’t appear to be true. Beirich is an academic, having written a dissertation on Spanish courts to earn her political science Ph.D. at Purdue University. She has no background in finance or accounting, and her own LinkedIn page lists a series of research and intelligence jobs at the SPLC rather than finance positions.

In an email message, The Federalist asked the SPLC what positions Beirich had held with the organization. The organization didn’t respond.

More importantly, Beirich appears to be an antagonist who broke with the SPLC during a period of internal crisis. Beirich left the organization in 2019, the same year that founder Morris Dees was forced out. In that year, a long series of news stories described chaos and anger inside the SPLC, routinely depicting it as a troubled........

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